chitter-chatter

Your mother's chitter-chatter segues into wall-paper and you try to remember where you parked the car, whether it's pulled in nice and tight in the garage or whether you left it curbside, afraid the garage door lifting at god-knows-when would wake mom, but you can't remember, you don't remember much of anything, not driving, not stumbling up the stairs, not sleeping.

Unintended Consequences Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

She says, “no personal calls,” but you constantly hear her the chitter-chatter of mindless phone babble emanating from her office.

6 Horrendous Leadership Types | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass! 2010

A fish hawk shrieked from high in the clouds, and in a nearby tree I heard the chitter-chatter of chickadees.

Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

A fish hawk shrieked from high in the clouds, and in a nearby tree I heard the chitter-chatter of chickadees.

Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

A fish hawk shrieked from high in the clouds, and in a nearby tree I heard the chitter-chatter of chickadees.

Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

In the case of the home videos, it appears to be her mother who is keeping up a string of insipid on-camera chitter-chatter combined with suggestions and directions as to what the little star might think of doing on camera.

Mary Bradley: Video Mother 2008

Before the film began, there was no audience chitter-chatter.

A Jarring Reminder 2006

MES changes the words to "... and backstage, the chitter-chatter of the Reading festival staff is louder than the band onstage ... and they still owe me plus VAT".

The Fall 1999

Now, as I joined them they took no note of me at all, and the chitter-chatter was deafening.

Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965

The boy in the meantime is busy in the kitchen preparing a huge pot of tea, and some basins are filled, and much smacking of lips and chitter-chatter shows the genuine enjoyment with which it is partaken of.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901